How do you do those.............

I know how to do the ones like Jake... but how do you do like fly threw and stuff. I've seen some clips where it has a huge wall of them, then zooms up on one. Any ideas?

No need for a black background (transparent) as that is the default anyway. Actually it is an alpha channel null background but shows black as long as you have nothing in the lowest track.

Scott do you have After Effects? If not go get it!

Hahhaha. I do have it. What is the next step?

Learn to use it. ;-)

In one sentence: You can animate position, scale, croping ect. and almost any other property of any clip in your composition.

Or you could just do it in 3D... ;-)

What's the next step? ---> Maya!!!
...and than? ---> MEL!!!
...and than? ---> be a MEL guru!!!
...and than?---> you are old an die!!!
;-)
:-)
Rudi

Put this lime in your coconut.....
https://www.pond5.com/de/stock-footage/264823

Scott if you want to flythrough stuff you need to learn how to use 3d layers in after effects.

That is it Ironstrike!!! FEED ME THE RECIPE!! Any good tutorials on this?

Take a look on Andrews site: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

There you find also a lot of basic stuff.

Rudi

With Vegas, if you want more flexibility, I find it easy to use the track motion button. You can have drop shadows, glows, etc and it's easy to animation. You can also use 3D tilts/angles and so forth. The pan/crop tool is ok, but you're limited to where you can place the clip before it gets cropped off.

But yeah, AE is really the way to go. So simple for stuff like this. And like Ironstrike says, once you learn 3D layers (not very hard) you can do all kinds of cool stuff. Dapoota, if you want to have 50 clips in frame and then zoom in to one, it's not very hard. My one sentence sum up is this: make a comp, import your clips, add the clip you want to zoom to into the timeline, add a 3d camera and add a keyframe, then move down the timeline a few seconds and pull its z axis back a bit (this will make the clip smaller and also add a keyframe), then take the rest of your clips and position them all in the frame around your main clip (don't scale them down), adjust the z axis as needed (pulling it back so all the clips fit), then ram preview and tailor to your liking! If you want the animation to zoom-in instead of zoom-out, you can either reverse the keyframes or just precompose the comp and time-reverse it.

^Damn, that was a longer sentence than I thought it'd be!

Of course, that's just ONE way of doing it. I've done this before for corporate videos. Once you learn track mattes, you can do some other cool things too :)